Locking hat-pin.



IA'ZTENITED JUNE 9, 1903.

H. E. STBVICK.

LOOKING HAT PIN. APPLICATION rum) l ss. :a 1903.

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DHWLSHINGTON u c UNITED ST TES Patented June 9, 1903.

PATE T OFFICE.

HIRAM E. sTEvIoK, or EvANs CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

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'sPnoInIc'ATIonrmmin part of Letters Patent No. 730,310, dated-June e, 1903.-

Application filed February 3, 1908, $erial lilo, 141,695. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM E. STEVIOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evans Oity,in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented anew and useful Improvement in Looking Hat-Pins, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved hatpin; and itconsists of two pieces of springwire bent and 'formed into shape, together with the certain details of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved hat-pin, the same being constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention. lar view showing the spiral portion moved back ready to enter into and lock the pin to the hat.

To construct a hat-pin in accordance with my invention, I providea piece of spring-wire of a suitable length and form. At either end thereof are points by means of which the pin may be readily entered through the crown of the hat. The Wire 2 is first carried back and formed in a spring portion 3, then forward ashort distance and bent upward at right angles, as at 4, and another spring-loop 5 formed. The end of the wire is now carried downward 6- in close contact with the adjacent portion 4 and given several turns about the straight point 2 and finished with a point 1 equal to the other, 2, as shown in the drawings. Another and shorter piece of wire is provided, the one end 8 sharpened to a point and a portion formed into a spiral coil'9 of ta- Fig. 2 is a simiv per form expanding from said point rearward and the end'lO bent at a right angle to form a handle-piece 11.

In operation the points 1 and 2 are entered through the crown of the hat in the usual manner and the point 8 forced through the same By revolving the handle 11 the spiral 9 is entered, drawing the points 1 and 2 together, as shown at Fig. 1, and the handle portion 10 forced between the parallel parts 4 and 6, which spring together and lock the same.

Various slight modifications may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit ot the invention. Therefore I do not confine myself to that shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is-

, The herein-described hat-pin, consisting of the points land 2, the spring-arms 4 and 6, having coil-springs 3 and 5, and the one point rigidly attached to the other by the twist 7, in combination with a tapering spiral 9, having a point 8 at the one end, a locking portion 10 and handle 11 at the other, all arranged and combined for service, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED. O. HENZI, H. J. Laws. 

